Former contender Alfonso Gómez is now broke and living on the streets

[lopetego]

Straight from the horses' mouth (spanish speakers can corroborate this info):

Gómez is best known for winning third place in the reality tv show The Contender, hosted by Sly Stallone.

He holds notable victories over former world champs Jose Luis ¨Floydbeater¨ Castillo and Peter Manfredo Jr. He also KO'd Arturo Gatti into retirement

among the biggest names he challenged were Canelo, Miguel Cotto and Shawn Porter in world title bouts, but came up short against all of them.

He retired in 2015 and, according to himself, he squandered all his money in just 6 years.

He's now 41yo, totally broke and literally living on the streets, claims he lost everything, his money, family, career, health, etc, due to drug addiction

Sad story

thoughts?

[LeOoze]

crazy to think he beat castillo but floyd couldn't and now gomez is broke and floyd is a billionaire (

[LeOoze]

in all seriousness, that's very sad. boxing is so unforgiving to its fighters.

[lopetego]

crazy to think he beat castillo but floyd couldn't and now gomez is broke and floyd is a billionaire :**

Floyd should offer the poor sob an exhibition fight

even now he'd be a better challenge than the Paul brothers or ¨Money kicks¨

[TreyShaw]

Man that is so sad hope Gomez can bounce back in life.

[Lupara]

Always liked Gomez and his family on the show seemed really nice too.

Sad he doesn't have anyone to help him get back on his feet

Drug addiction is no joke

Wonder how much money he squandered?

[clmags12]

I rooted for Gomez back then. Hope he finds his way.

[jaded]

That is incredibly sad and shocking.

[lopetego]

Always liked Gomez and his family on the show seemed really nice too.

Sad he doesn't have anyone to help him get back on his feet

Drug addiction is no joke

Wonder how much money he squandered?

Probably more money than we forum dwellers have ever made

which makes it all even more shocking

it reallly makes you think if legalization of drugs is a good idea.

it's obvious some people just can't control it, and usage will always turn into abuse with them

[ELPacman]

That's crazy. I still remember his Gatti destruction where Gatti fell down with a split up lip and blood pouring out. Says adios in the post fight interview and you think, damn, Gatti era is over and Gomez is tough! Then I remember Gomez shortly after getting obliterated by Cotto. His face was swollen to **** and I thought, Okay, well Gomez is done. He actually had some good money fights after the Cotto loss that included winning again. Surprised he went down the dark road. Probably didn't have the best support around him throughout everything. Sucks.